NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 348, 25 June 1894, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

IFKB PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Wellington, June 23 U ready thirteen of the unemployed who began work at the '* Queen's Drive '" have failed to put in an appearance after n day or two's work, and hare been struck off the relief hat. In the case of Dr. Skej (as executor for bid son) v the Mutual Life Association of Australasia. Mr Justice Richmond has | reserved judgment. Mr <]'. E. Fitzgerald. Auditor-General, is suffering from an acute attack of bronchitis. The mortgagee of the Wellington Cooperative Bus Company has ordered the plant to be offered for sale by auction on Monday. Fur (some years the Company has run in opposition to the city trams. Auckland, Juae 23. The jury in the for tun3- telling case were four and a half bours confined considering the verdict. The .Bishop of Melanesia was presented with a pastoral staff framed out of tim be-r of the old mission schooner Southe n Cross, Mr Seymour Thorne Gee rgo received a telegram from the Premier, in reply to his own re Bewi's death, in which he states he han ordered that volleys may be Gred and that die homage will be paid to the memory of the illustrious chief. CHBIBTCHURCH, June 21 A cashbox containing £49. has been stolon from the Vliddloton Hoe., Eaiapoi The Avon Licensing Committoe heard evidence yesterday on behalf of two bouses proposed to le closed It was decided to grant a license to the Bower Hotel, at New Brighton, and to refuse the application in respect of the Courtenay Arms In tbe Magistrate's Court to day Rich, who gave hiineelf up to the police on the previous day, and confessed to having stolen £500 from the .National Bank, was remanded till tbe 25th inst. In»pec!or Brohum stated that though accused had confessed he had not so far made restitution, or given any informaation about ihe disposal of the money. Dunkdjn, June 23. Mary McCauley, a domestic servant employed :n a boardinghouse in Walker street, attempted suicide by taking laudanum this morning. She has been re moved to the hospital, and is now recovering.